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Janis Joplin
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“Down on me, down on me, / Looks like everybody in this whole round world / Is down on me.”
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“[When ex-President Eisenhower's death prevented her photograph from appearing on the cover of Newsweek:] Fourteen heart attacks and he had to die in my week. In my week.”
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“Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose.”
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“You got to get it while you can.”
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“I love being a star more than life itself.”
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“You better not compromise yourself, it's all you've got.”
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“Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.”
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“Onstage, I make love to twenty-five thousand people, then I go home alone.”
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“Maybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I'm destroying myself.”
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“It's not easy living up to Janis Joplin, you know.”
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“It's gonna be a long hard drag, but we'll make it.”
Janis Joplin, U.S. singer, songwriter
(1843 - 1970)
Full name: Janis Lyn Joplin.